Habakkuk 1
1 The message that Habakkuk the prophet received,
Onus, quod vidit Habacuc propheta.
2 “Yahweh, how long will I cry for help, and you will not hear? I cry out to you, 'Violence!' but you will not save.
Usquequo Domine clamabo, et non exaudies? vociferabor ad te vim patiens, et non salvabis?
3 Why do you make me see iniquity and look upon wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and contention rises up.
Quare ostendisti mihi iniquitatem, et laborem, videre praedam, et iniustitiam contra me? Quare respicis contemptores, et taces, conculcante impio iustiorem se? Et facies homines quasi pisces maris; et quasi reptilia non habentia ducem; et factum est iudicium, et contradictio potentior.
4 Therefore the law is weakened, and justice does not last for any time. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore false justice goes out.”
Propter hoc lacerata est lex, et non pervenit usque ad finem iudicium: quia impius praevalet adversus iustum, propterea egreditur iudicium perversum.
5 “Look at the nations and examine them; be amazed and astonished! For I am surely about to do something in your days that you will not believe when it is reported to you.
Aspicite in gentibus, et videte: admiramini, et obstupescite: quia opus factum est in diebus vestris, quod nemo credet cum narrabitur.
6 For look! I am about to raise up the Chaldeans—that fierce and impetuous nation— they are marching throughout the breadth of the land to seize homes that were not their own.
Quia ecce ego suscitabo Chaldaeos, gentem amaram et velocem, ambulantem super latitudinem terrae, ut possideat tabernacula non sua.
7 They are terrifying and fearsome; their judgment and splendor proceed from themselves.
Horribilis, et terribilis est: ex semetipsa iudicium, et onus eius egredietur.
8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, quicker than the evening wolves. So their horses stamp, and their horsemen come from a great distance—they fly like an eagle hurrying to eat.
Leviores pardis equi eius, et velociores lupis vespertinis: et diffundentur equites eius: equites namque eius de longe venient, volabunt quasi aquila festinans ad comedendum.
9 They all come for violence; their multitudes go like the desert wind, and they gather captives like sand.
Omnes ad praedam venient, facies eorum ventus urens: et congregabit quasi arenam, captivitatem.
10 So they mock kings, and rulers are only a mockery for them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they heap up earth and take them.
Et ipse de regibus triumphabit, et tyranni ridiculi eius erunt: ipse super omnem munitionem ridebit, et comportabit aggerem, et capiet eam.
11 Then the wind will rush on; it will move past—guilty men, those whose might is their god.”
Tunc mutabitur spiritus, et pertransibit; et corruet: haec est fortitudo eius dei sui.
12 “Are you not from ancient times, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh has ordained them for judgment, and you, Rock, have established them for correction.
Numquid non tu a principio Domine Deus meus, sancte meus, et non moriemur? Domine in iudicium posuisti eum: et fortem ut corriperes, fundasti eum.
13 Your eyes are too pure to gaze upon evil, and you are not able to look on wrongdoing with favor; why then have you looked favorably on those who betray? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than they are?
Mundi sunt oculi tui, ne videas malum, et respicere ad iniquitatem non poteris. quare respicis super iniqua agentes, et taces devorante impio iustiorem se?
14 You make men like fish in the sea, like creeping things without a ruler over them.
Et facies homines quasi pisces maris, et quasi reptile non habens principem.
15 He brings all of them up with a fishhook; he drags men away in his fishnet; he gathers them together in his dragnet; so he rejoices and he is glad.
Totum in hamo sublevavit, traxit illud in sagena sua, et congregavit in rete suum. Super hoc laetabitur et exultabit.
16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury, and his food is the richest kind.
propterea immolabit sagenae suae, et sacrificabit reti suo: quia in ipsis incrassata est pars eius, et cibus eius electus.
17 Will he therefore keep emptying his net, and will he continually slaughter the nations without mercy?”
Propter hoc ergo expandit sagenam suam, et semper interficere Gentes non cessat.
